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(Application filed Nov. 1, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT CLARK, OF KNOXVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

PRlN TERS GALLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,611, dated July 16, 1901.

Application filed November 1, 1900. Serial No. 35,132. (No model.) I

T0 60% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT CLARK, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Knoxville, county of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Printers Galleys, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating myinvention in use. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of my improved type-galley. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section thereof on the line III III of Fig. 4. Fig. 4C is a plan view. Fig. 5 is a partial longitudinal sectional View through the delivery end of the galley in position for delivering the type to the form. Fig. 6 is a cross-section on the line VI VI of Fig. 5. Figs. 7 and 8 are cross-sectional views on the line VII VII of Fig. 4., showing the adjustable measuring-guide in loosened and tightened position, respectively. Fig. 9 is an under plan view of the forward end.

My invention is designed for the purpose of facilitating the work of type-setting, more particularly the transfer of the set-up type from the galley to the form; and it consists in an improved galley made and used as hereinafter described.

In the operation of setting type either wholly by hand or in assembling machinecast lines the type is transferred from the composing-stick to a galley, from which it is then transferred in composite sections to the form either for printing direct or to produce a matrix for stereotyping. In such latter transfer great care must be taken in lifting out the type that it is not disarranged, and this work is frequently rendered especially difficult by reason of the fact that certain portionsas, for instance, block letters, figures, cuts, &c.-will not justify with the body portion of the stock matter when composed of machine-set slugs and must therefore be picked out singly. Such operations require considerable time and care and are always apt to result in mistake or accident.

My invention has for its object the re medying of such defects; and it consists in a galley adapted to be adjusted to the form and to deliver the type bodily by sliding directly clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

While the sides are somewhat heavier to provide rigidity. From a point 6 the bottom extends forwardly, being turned up slightly, so as to more nearly aline with the bottom of the form, as shown in Fig. 5, and for the same purpose and to deliver the type smoothly onto such bottom the front edge is chamfered oif underneath, as shown at 7. The width between the sides 3, as shown in the drawings,

corresponds to the width of a column, and in use the galley is placed over the top of the form, as shown in Fig. 1, the sides 3 resting on the top edges of the .colummrules 8, for which purpose the sides are cut off forwardly and upwardly underneath the extension 3', by which the galley may be laid down on the edges of the column-rules at a convenient angle to allow the extended end of the bottom to lie down on the bottom of the form, as

For the purpose of accurately adj ustin g the galley to such position the inner lower edges of the extensions 3 are provided with grooves 9, which engage the edge of the column-rules '8, as shown in Fig. 6. The lower outer edges of such extensions are also beveled ofi, as shown, so as not to interfere with the set-up type in the next adjacent column.

The upper edges of sides 3 are provided with suitable scale-divisions 10, corresponding to the style of type for which the galley is intended, the unit of measurement, as one inch, being subdivided, for instance, on one side into twelfths for nonpareil, or twelvepoint, and on the'other into fourteenths for agate. Adj ustably mounted on the side is a gage 11, of any suitable construction, provided with an edge 12, adapted to be set to the point to which the type are to be set, by which the galley may be gaged for any predetermined amount of space.

The scale also provides means for readily determining the amount of set-up matter when its extent is not previously determined. The gage shown in the drawings is made of two pieces provided with downwardly-turned lips 13, adapted to engage and bind against the outer upper edges of the sides, lapping at the center and connected by a cam-locking key 14, by

I work, wide advertisements, &c., the galley may be made of varying widths greater than a single column, as two, three, or more column widths, andit maybe of such length as may be necessary to accommodate any desired amount of type. I

A further particular advantage of my invention is that it provides apositive lock for the type when set in the galley by reason of the sides and the adjustable gage, which may be set up tight against the type, thus facilitating the taking of a proof and obviating the necessity of the usual lock-stick.

With my improved galley it is possible to deliver a full column of single or any width to the form without disarrangement of one sliding motion, the advantages of which operation will be appreciated by those skilled in the art of printing.

Changes and variations may be made in the design, proportions, or other details of construction by the skilled mechanic, since I do not desire to be limited to the exact construction shown and described, but to include all such changes as within the scope of the following claims.

lVhat I claim is 1. A galley consisting of an open-ended box having parallel sides and an extended bottom adapted to fit upon and'between the column-rules of a type-form, substantially as set forth. 7

2. A galley consisting of an open-ended box having parallel sides, an extended bottom, and side extensions having under -sl0ping edges, substantially as set forth.

3. A galley consisting of an open ended box having parallel sides, an extended bottom, and side extensions having undensloping edges with recessed grooves, substantially as set forth.

4. A galley consisting of an open-ended box having parallel sides provided with hearing extensions and gage-graduations, and an extended bottom, substantially as set forth.

5. A galley consisting of an open-ended box having parallelsides provided with hearing extensions and gage-graduations and an extended bottom, with an adjustable gage adapted to be set on the sides, substantially as set forth.

6. A galley consisting of parallel sides and one end, a bottom secured to the sides and end projecting beyond the sides, the sides being tapered upwardly from the bottom, provided underneath with longitudinal grooves, having graduations on their upper edge, and an adjustable gage adapted to be set on the sides, substantially as set forth.

7. A printers. galley consisting of sides adapted to conform to the column-rules and an extended bottom secured to the sides, fitting between the column-rules and adapted to bear upon the bottom of the form, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Pittsburg this 22d day of October, 1900.

HERBERT CLARK.

- Witnesses:

PETER J. EDW RDs,

O. M. CLARKE. 

